"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
"Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
"The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed."
"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."
"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."
"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision."
"Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."
"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
"One can never consent to creep when one has the impulse to soar."
"The most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or touched-they are felt by the human heart"
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
"Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn’t make life any sweeter or happier, does it?"
"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow."
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."